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By SophiesMommy
@SophiesMommy (1288)
United States
November 30, 2006 9:54am CST
Don't you think it's weird that to sign up for a g-mail account you have to give them your phone number so they can send you an invitation code? Why are they the only e-mail site that you have to do this? What do they do with your phone number?
7 responses
@PatriciaL (2080)
• United States
1 Dec 06
They do it so that they can make sure you don't sign up for more than 10 accounts for one phone number. Just terms and security stuff.
@SophiesMommy (1288)
• United States
3 Dec 06
You can't do that with gmail because they text you an invitation code.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
3 Dec 06
I have yahoo, hotmail and dataone (my internet service provider's email). That being the case, where is need to have another. I heard people saying this about gmail. I did not bother to apply. It is not indespensable.
@milott (2646)
• India
1 Dec 06
i guess it could be optional. you can open a gmail account from some who already has a gmail account, they could send you an invitation to open a gmail account. By the way i have 100s of gmail invites with me with no use, nowadays nobody wants it, if you want it send me a P.M. to receive it, I would be happy to give it to you.
@SophiesMommy (1288)
• United States
1 Dec 06
Thanks but I already gave them my phone number and opened it. :)
@SophiesMommy (1288)
• United States
3 Dec 06
You probably didn't have to give your phone number because you had an invite.
@birthlady (5609)
• United States
1 Dec 06
I am not familiar with g-mail, but I would not give out my phone number if necessary to use it, I'd use another service.
@SophiesMommy (1288)
• United States
1 Dec 06
I opened one because if you have one and buy stuff online they give you $10 off.
